Yorktown Heights, NY is a pleasant and tranquil town located in the northern part of Westchester County. It has a proud history with significant ties to American Revolutionary War events, and it continues to be an attractive place to live for its inhabitants. Politically, the town is represented by four local legislative representatives in Albany – two from the Senate and two from the Assembly. The town also has a Town Supervisor who presides over the Town Board which meets to consider various issues concerning Yorktown Heights residents. During election season, many local candidates run for office in order to represent their constituents accurately and faithfully. Issues such as education funding, zoning regulations, taxes, public safety, infrastructure maintenance and development are all discussed regularly in order to provide increased quality of life for its citizens.
The political climate in Yorktown Heights, NY is somewhat liberal.
Westchester County, NY is very liberal. In Westchester County, NY 67.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 31.3% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Westchester county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 67.6% to 31.3%.
Westchester county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Yorktown Heights, NY is somewhat liberal.
Westchester County, New York is very liberal.
New York-Newark-Jersey City Metro Area is strongly liberal.
New York is moderately liberal.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Yorktown Heights, New York: D D D D D D
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Yorktown Heights, NY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,755 contributions totaling $375,125 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $214 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 344 contributions totaling $142,123 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $413 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)